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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — June 2008, Leonard Lardaro Jun 2008

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — June 2008, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — May 2008, Leonard Lardaro May 2008

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — May 2008, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — April 2008, Leonard Lardaro Apr 2008

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — April 2008, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — March 2008, Leonard Lardaro Mar 2008

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — March 2008, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — February 2008, Leonard Lardaro Feb 2008

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — February 2008, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Industry Structure Similarities, Trade Agreements, And Business Cycle Synchronization, Samuel D. Marll Jan 2008

Industry Structure Similarities, Trade Agreements, And Business Cycle Synchronization, Samuel D. Marll

Gettysburg Economic Review

This paper analyzes the effects of industry structure similarities, free trade agreements, and geographic borders on regional business cycle correlation, using fifty US states, 10 Canadian provinces, and 1 Canadian territory as a case study. Using two cross-sectional OLS regressions and one panel data OLS regression, this study finds that pair-wise gross territorial product growth correlation decreased significantly after NAFTA ratification for state-state, province-province, and state-province territorial pairs, contrary to previous literature’s results. NAFTA effectively decoupled intra-national business cycles in the US and Canada while also desynchronizing cross-border pair-wise GSP growth correlation, but cross-border pair-wise GSP growth correlation was much …


Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — January 2008, Leonard Lardaro Jan 2008

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — January 2008, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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